Elizabeth opened her eyes and found a pink-haired girl with her head resting on her shoulder tht and a red-haired girl resting her head on her shoulder to her left. Both girls seemed to be waiting patiently for her to open her eyes.

  “I’m back Rossie, Rena.” Elizabeth said as she felt her [Heart] beat and flood her body with renewed mana.

  Unlike before when her mana only felt [Heavier] and [Denser], this time it felt more…Hers, almost as if it had always been like this. It was akin to the difference she felt the first time she had e the ambient mana from [Zaanam]. Only now, it wasn’t like she had purged the mana again.

  It was akin to being more her. Elizabeth was happy with her choice; there had beeer options, of course, but Rossie and Rena had taken other options too, so why couldn’t Elizabeth?

  “So?” Rossie asked first, “Did you get something nice?”

  “What did you pick Eli?” Rena also asked after Rossie, “ we see?”

  Elizabeth felt mischievous. She wao keep her secret until the st moment, only revealing it when they were about to fight. But seeing the puppy eyes her girlfriends were giving her, she couldn’t.

  That would be straight-up evil, like showing the e of something but not telling anyone when it will happen. Elizabeth couldn’t do that to even her worst enemies. “Sure, let me…Identify.” Elizabeth said instinctually.

  She felt the skill take hold, and the information blossomed in front of her once more, the [Job]...no. The Job maed as a bck s.

  Hero - Shadow Weaver:You have done your work. You experimented, fought, and bled for what you believed. You nurture the souls, lives, and livelihoods of those under your care. You are not only expanding your reach but also keeping it tained so it doesn't spill to the outside and create chaos.

  Even though those under you would rain fire and brimstone upon the world should you desire, you are still keeping it civil.

  And that is what we call a [Hero] or a [Guardian]. We are grateful for that, so we will pretend not to see what you did.

  You have weaved your shadows far and wide, and what was going to be your life mission has been achieved as you cimed your Domain and prepared the nd, instead of making one from scratch, you decided to take under your wing the lost and give them a sed ce. For your mission turned into that of nurturing the souls of the damo grant them a sed life.

  Be it the souls from a dead world or the souls of those who had been drowned in despair, you nurtured them both and grahem a sed life. Even if you made mistakes along the way, they still g to you, so you tinued on this path.

  You are opening your Domain for them and striving to be a better version of yourself. You shifted your future, and so when is the time to pick a new path? You decided that you wanted more, not because you deserved it, not because you thought that you deserved it.

  But because you didn't want to fail them again, not for yourself but for those who believed in you, we answered.

  Strive to be better, Elizabeth Starbright, for there is so much more that you do.

  You will be able to wield your Shadows as a sed nature, you will be able to weave what is at your and, be it mana or prana. Shadows or the things they are ected to. So long they are under your domain, they may as well be yours to and.

  Living or dead, material or immaterial. Faith or belief, truth or lie.

  Life or Death.

  All will be yours to and, so long you have the priaterial to manipute.

  Beware of the path you have decided to take. While you may struggle to and the elements at the moment, perhaps you only o shift your frame of mind.

  At the very least, how you manipute shadows differs from how you should manipute lighting.

  And how you weave your shadows is different from how you weave Life, even if both are things that you will be able to do iure. For now? Focus on what you do, Starbright.

  [Especial privilege earned, you may retain the bonus from the inal Shadow Weaver Job and enhaheir effects.]

  [The sed job bonus will not receive a penalty to sedary skills ic acquired.]

  [You will receive an upgrade to all skills deemed Vital to this job.]

  [Increased mastery toward Mana Manipution.]

  [Increased mastery toward Soul Manipution.]

  [Increased mastery toward Mana.]

  [Increased mastery toward Shadows.]

  [Increased mastery toward Healing Souls.]

  [Increased mastery toward Nurturing Souls.]

  [Adquired the ability to Gestate Souls.]

  [Domain solidified.]

  [Divine Familiar slots open.]

  [You will earn 2??????????5???? 28 stat points per level]

  Elizabeth he information towards Rossie and Rena, marveling at how the bck s divided into two exact copies with the information sirlfriends could read it more fortably.

  “ you do that for ours, too? We tried sharing it between us, but we couldn’t get the…real oo e.” Rossie said sheepishly.

  The real ones?

  ht, these were bck ss, not the blue ss normal to Zaanam.

  “Sure, let me just Identify you both,” Elizabeth said, n to summon the skill just yet, but even so, her mana seemed to ao her on its own.

  Healing Princess:You have worked as a healer, toiled in id hospitals, traveled the world from house to house, done a noble job, dealt with many diseases, saved those who stood at the brink of death, and brought joy to those who suffered.

  A noble endeavor worthy of saints.

  But...you aren't noble, nor a saint.

  You are...Rossaline Singh The Mispced Saintess of Healing. The twisted and broken Healer of a broken and cursed world.

  You have traveled far o lost hero, and in this world, you have found...Love. Let the love grow, let it heal your broken soul. Let it grow ions and bee a better person.

  As your love became obvious, the other person took notice of you aended her hand. That is good for more than one reason, and it allows you this boon.

  Your romantic partner is akin to royalty. So, what do we call those who will marry into what will be royalty?

  That is correct, you be proud and join the royal family of Aqui.

  Be the Princess of Healing so that you may soothe your paramour's hurt and flicted heart.

  This job will grant you the required knowledge to help your paramour in what she requires of you, be it political insight or to soothe her troubled heart.

  [Grants mastery towards Healing Mana.][Grants mastery towards Healing Magic.][Grants mastery towards Shadow Magic.][Grants mastery towards resistahat yoddess has.][You are bound to yoddess’s Domain upoh you bee a member of her Phanteon.]

  Sword Princess:You lived by the sword and died by the sword.

  Be it now or in your past life, you always had blind faith in this. You trained with the sword, sharpened your senses, a go of your mortal worries while you basked in the blood of a thousand enemies. Some of your allies called you a Sword Saint, for wherever you passed by, a thousand would live another day.

  Your enemies called you a Sword Demon, for your visage bathed in blood with tattered clothes and wounds that would have a grown-up man g for their mother burned in their minds...till they died at your sword.

  None would ever think of yourself as someone feminine or lovely. No one would ever link you with the image of a girl.

  No oill now.

  Elizabeth Starbright saved you, and then, as if that wasn't enough, she decided to give you a ce at soothing your troubled soul; instead of just enjoying you as you wanted, she chose to threaten you as a Human.

  The funny thing is that you who wao be treated as a Demon by your enemies and a Sword Saint by your allies would find someoreating you as Human, of all things.

  It gave you the ce to beore, to dream like the young girl you had been so many lives ago. So when she offered the opportunity for you to be something else, you wao bee what your enemies feared the most so you could protect her.

  To bee a sword demon and Ashura.

  A...

  She offered you to be something else, anything but that.

  So now you are here. Rena Starbright, The Sword Princess.

  This job will offer you everything you o help your lover, your wife, yirlfriend, your family, or anything else that you decide to have.

  You will know how to wield all ons you take into your hands, feeding from the knowledge of those who once wielded them or will wield them. So long as you hold the on, the information will be at your disposal.

  If no o, whatever martial art is used against you will be engraved upon your body so that you may wield it against those who dare stand against those you love.

  "Cry 'Havoc!', a slip the dogs of war."

  [Grants mastery towards all bded ons.][Grants mastery towards all martial arts.][Grants mastery towards Shadow Magic.][Grants mastery towards resistahat yoddess has.][You are bound to yoddess’s Domain upoh you bee a member of her Phanteon.]

  Ara set of bck ss flourished and hovered in front of each girl, so now each girl had two ss to read. Rena had Rossie and Elizabeth's ss, while Rossie had Rena and Elizabeth's ss.

  And finally Eilzabeth had Rossie & Rena’s, the three girls had enough to read for some time. Elizabeth wasn’t sure if she should smile, ugh or kiss her girlfriends. Both had somehow matched with each other, had they p?

  Elizabeth hadn’t seen them speak or say anything, though, so even so, both girls had picked the same type of jobs with the same theme. It made Elizabeth jealous; she had two princesses firlfriends, but she herself hadn’t been able to pie of such jobs.

  If they had been avaible, she would have also picked them; who didn’t want to be a princess?!?!?

  But what would she have bee? Magic Princess? Shadow Princess? That one sounded shady… Dragon Princess?

  ….

  No, she wouldn’t have picked that one even if it showed. Instead, she had the grown-up variants to pick, and she didn’t want to feed her ego more if possible; she had a bad time with [Pride] running rampart, and while she had the [Gem of Pride] now… She didn’t want to give that one any ce to go wild. Her [ of Sin] should help with the ma, but even so. She o make sure that it was okay.

  [Gluttony] and [Wrath] hadn’t fred after she got them, so [Pride] should be the same.

  “You didn’t have cute options Eli-Eli?” Rossie asked after some time.

  “....Not really. I had some iing choices, but this was the best I marust me, if I had a princess job, I would have picked it.” Elizabeth answered Rossie. “I would love to match with you two; they really suit you, my two adorable and cute princesses.”

  They really matched them, even at this moment Elizabeth loved how Rena blushed while pretending to not be eted, how Rossie smiled while pretending to not like the pliment, it was a nice ce of pace from Rossie’s usually domineering ways.

  “Okay, so…how are we doing with the ges?” Elizabeth asked, fog the versation on what they had e to do. " Is there any problem with skills?”

  Elizabeth wasn’t sure how their new jobs would i with the skills. Elizabeth had merely reinforced her job after all, so she didn’t have that much trouble, even if the description implied her work would be easier with new skills avaible when she hem.

  “Not here, most of my skills are shifting. I lost the [Demon Sying Sword] from the normal [Status], but I still see it in my Status.” Rena said first.

  That was a towister (and not of the fun type): “So you ’t use it…but you still use it?” Elizabeth asked.

  “Yes, I ’t use it as Watanabe Rena. But I use it as…” Rena said, suddenly stopping as her face blushed furiously red, and in a small tone, she said. “I use it as Rena Starbright.”

  ….Cute.

  “Same here, well, not really. I didn’t lose that many useful things, and most of the things I lost to Rossaliarbright are things I still use normally. Even if it means wasting some extra mana.” Rossie said from the side with pride in her voice, it seemed that Rossie really liked her name on the bck s.

  “So when will this name move to the blue ss Eli-Eli?” Rossie asked nontly.

  “... year, Rossie, we schedule a nice pce for the name ge,” Elizabeth answered, trying not to overthink it. The less she thought about it, the better.

  She…had collected now [Wrath], [Gluttony] and [Pride], she…probably would get [Lust] wheureen that left [Sloth], [Greed] and [Envy]. She….wasn’t looking forward to getting those.

  But her instincts told her that leaving the [] too long without finishing would be bad for her [Heart].

  She would need a way to track those [Sins]. So far, she had gotten lucky. [Gluttony] was fed against her will, [Wrath] was acquired by dumb luck. Pride…she could do without if she was being ho.

  But then again, it had been her hubris the ohat brought it to her.

  “Eli-Eli?” Rossie suddenly asked, " Is everything okay? Are your new [Skills] giving you trouble?”

  “Do you need help?” Rena asked from the side, Elizabeth could feel mana pooling in both girl’s hearts.

  “No, everything is okay. I was thinking about how to solve something, but we have time. As for my skills…” Elizabeth said, turning to her own skill list.

  Skills

  Jeneral

  Titles

  of Sin: XSoulscape: XMana Manipution: 100Magic Circle Manipution: 100Spell Crafting: 100ShiftMinion Summoning: 100Shadow Puppeteer: 50Shadow Step: XShadow Doppelganger: X

  Draic's Foundation: XDragon's Knowledge Vault: XLayered Safeguard: XPerfect Self: XIdentify: XRegeion: 66Close-quarter-bat: 50Cw: 100Flight: 95Dragon’s Scales: 100Heroic Party: 2Soulscape: XDivine Blessing: XBanked skills

  Dragonic EyesSeven Series DragoGluttony’s MawWrath’s EnginePride’s True Shift

  “This, I deal with just fine.” Elizabeth didn’t notice that much of a ge. If anything, the biggest ge and the skill that intrigued her the most was… “This one will be the ohat I will try to py with.”

  True Shift:

  Allows you to alter the very fabriana. Transf the very essence of something into…ahing. So long you have access to that which you want to shift something into.

  You may ge and shift anything that you have under your Domain, shifting from something into anything, so long you know what you are shifting into. Be it skills, mana, or form, anything is possible, for this is something that is among what you have a Divine Right to achieve.

  “That? But that just allows you to….you know…” Rena said, looking at Elizabeth weirdly, “I mean, it is a fine skill and what allows us to ge into bat clothes faster…It is good that I have fortable clothes to fight that have the same durability as body armor. But that’s about i.”

  “Yeah, grahat thing allows us to ge into the…[Sin Shift]. Aurn to normal. But…will you reveal that?” Rossie said with an uone of fear in her voice.

  “No.” Elizabeth said firmly, “Not unless I guarahat bitch will stay under trol.”

  Elizabeth would never five that side of her, the ohat was willing to discard Rossie and Rena as if they were mere trash.

  “No, I have other pns for this. I think this will allow me more versatility while fighting, I should had thought about this before, since I was already using some aspects of this before.” Really, Elizabeth should have noticed this before. She wasn’t sure why or how Alexanders had givehis.

  Or perhaps this art of Elizabeth from the beginning? She wasn’t sure. But the idea that wormed into her mind was stuck there, livi-free now, so she wao test it.

  “Anyway, we o pn for [Shadow Pact].” Elizabeth said, turning serious, “Aura!”

  “Yes, Mistress?” Aura materialized at her call. The purple-haired girl was still somewhat of a mystery to Elizabeth, but she was useful if nothing else.

  “Call Jenna back, please. Also, has [Shadow Pact] been located?” Elizabeth asked.

  “Our Scouts have found the presence of hostile shadows. We are currently trying to find the epiter of their domain to better locate our target,” Beatrice said, materializing a sed after Elizabeth asked. You may go fetch Lady Jenna.”

  Beatrice seemed to have something to say.

  “As you wish, Lady Valkyrie.” Aura said, nodding, “I may take some time digging Jenna out, so excuse me for my tardiness, Mistress.”

  And like that, the purple-haired girl teleported away; Elizabeth could feel her nding near Jenna and just telep the blue girl out of the sand. But she decided not to mind that since Beatrice seemed to want to speak with her.

  “Mistress…What do you wish to achieve from this fight against [Shadow Pact]?” And so Beatrice asked. “We don’t o fight against him; your objective has been fulfilled; you have gotten Lady Alid Lady Chloe back.”

  Then, turning to Rossie, Beatrice added, “Mhting against a member of the [ars] after being wouo such degree….I….I don’t think this course of a….is wise.” Beatrice finished, l her head while trembling.

  “Beatrice…” Elizabeth was moved, of course; this was the first time one of her [Minions] had actively gone against one of her instrus while she was fully aware.

  “YOU DARE?!?!?!” The voice of an enraged roar sounded as the shadows withient trashed about, and the figure of an enraged shadon materialized, “YOU WOULD DARE TO PRESUME WHAT IS BEST FOR OUR MISTRESS?!?!? YOU?!?!? A MERE HATG?!?!? NOT EVEN ONE WHO EMBRACED THEIR FULL POTENTIAL?!?!? OHAT DISCARDED THAT WHICH WOULD MAKE YOU USEFUL?!?!?”

  This…this was new. Nyx wasn’t in his sleek dragon form, no. It was a form covered in red pulsating scales, and his back had a series of spikes that seemed to drip a tar-like substahat hissed as if melting what it touched. His cws were long and curved, and his Maen in a perpetual snarl.

  Nyx was seething with rage, Elizabeth could feel it.

  “Nyx…” Elizabeth said in a low voice.

  “YOU WOULD SPIT INTO OUR MISTRESS BENEVOLE?!?!?” But Nyx was toed.

  “NYXFYRE!” So Elizabeth raised her voice, “Calm dow Beatrice speak.”

  “....hmph… Speak, Minion, and I hope that your excuse is worth it because while our Mistress is the one who decides our positions, you will hold no honlory within the [Shadow Haven] without my blessing.” Nyx said as his form shifted to his young dragon's sleek form.

  “Thank you, Lord Nyxfyre.” Beatrice merely said while bowing to Nyx, “As I was saying…We don’t win anything by fronting [Shadow Pact], my advice is to retreat back to either Camelot or the Ameri Federation. To train and master the powers you have acquired here, and then face [Shadow Pact], or if possible, let the [ars] deal with him. We… we don’t o be the oo do it.”

  “And this has nothing to do with how I ended up wounded.” Rossie said from the side, “Speak, Beatrice. Is this because you think I will be a hindrance? Because I will be hurt in the crossfire?”

  Beatrice lowered her head at this accusation, “I…I don’t wish for you to be hurt, Mother. And if our Mistress ’t guarahat she will not hurt you in the crossfire…I…I don’t want to be stuck agaiween my loyalty to our Mistress and my loyalty to you, Mother.” The small maid said as tears fell from her eyes.

  “....” Elizabeth…had not thought about that. She had been too focused on how she had suffered, how she had made Rossie and Rena suffer…How she had acted, what she had done.

  “Weakness…Utter foolish weakness.” Nyx sighed as he spoke, “We are Shadons; even if we are to fall, we will rise once more, for that is our Nature; our Mistress will rule this world from the shadows; what we must do will never ge. We will follow our mistress wishes and act as needed.”

  “I…I will of course do that!” Beatrice almost screamed back as she turned with her tear-streaked eyes and gred at Nyx, “But! Mother isn’t a Shadon! She isn’t…She…. she…. she shouldn’t…She….Should she die…”

  “I will stand by Elizabeth,” Rossie said slowly as she walked towards Beatrice. “You know it, too, don’t you? What would I do if Elizabeth were to die and I wasn’t by her side?”

  Beatriodded.

  “You would live a happy life in my honor, of course,” Elizabeth said from behind.

  “Of course I would Eli-Eli!” Rossie smiled mogly back at Elizabeth, “The same as you would do if something happeo me.”

  “...point taken.” Elizabeth sighed while adding another point to her mental note of pns to make sure Rossie didn’t do something stupid should the worst happen to her, she really needed a way to ensure her girlfriends wouldn’t do something stupid.

  “So hear me out, Beatrice, my lovely daughter,” Rossie said while kneeling in front of the little girl, “Do you know what I would do if something happeo Elizabeth and I wasn’t nearby?”

  “....Yes….” Beatriodded. “But Mother!”

  “No buts. I love you like a daughter because of how you were made.” Rossie said with a sad uone, “But….I love Elizabeth, too.”

  Unsaid was the point that while Beatrice was like a daughter to Rossie…that was about it.

  “....Fine, but…I stand by my point anyway.” Beatrice said, wiping away the tears in her eyes.” There is no reason why we must fight [Shadow Pact] here and now.”

  “You are correct,” Elizabeth said.

  “...Mistress?” Beatrice was fused.

  “Eli-Eli?” So was Rossie.

  “A…” Rena said as if to guide the versation back to the point that Elizabeth wao make.

  “We aren’t doing it for me, but because I have a message to give.” Elizabeth said as a shadow lock materialized above her hand, it had the letters [CA] on it, “We are doing it because [Shadow Pact] is near and I o deliver a mesaage to him from his sister.”

  Elizabeth was keenly aware that if she waited she could probably defeat most of the [ars], she only o grow. The bonus she was getting already was way beyond what any mortal had any right to have.

  She was among the very few who had earhe S—tier at this level. She would be surprised if any of the [ars] were at this level of power this early. Was it once again her [Hubris]?

  Maybe, but it was a fact that she had grown stronger, and as far as she remembered from the non-glitched status s she had seen… [Shadow Pact] shouldn’t be as strong as she was right now.

  She should be able to defeat him.

  And if she was able to defeat him, she should be able to safely deliver the message that Chloe had left with her. She only o get some seo his former crush…

  She only o make him k her feet and look upon her.

  …Yeah, it was definitely her Ego speaking.

  “....Fine.” Beatrice sighed, “I know that a mere minio have an opinion.”

  “Beatrice…” Elizabeth sighed too.

  “I will help you in this endeavor, Mistress, for that is what Mother wishes. But…but if I have ear least some degree of goodwill…” The little maid said as her fist trembled, “I wish for a boon from you.”

  “Don’t oversteep your boundaries Minion.” Nyx s the back. Was he getting into a phase?

  “Sure, if I grant it, I will do so, “Elizabeth answered. "I have said this before. Any minion that wishes for something only o ask. You all do too mue.”

  And Elizabeth meant it, she truly wanted her minions to feel cared for. So long she could fulfill their wishes, she didn’t mind doing so. Granted, she couldn’t fulfill all of them, just like how she couldn’t fulfill the desire from Beatrice for them to leave.

  “That is all I ask, I will return to my duties now.” Beatrice said bowing to Elizabeth and Nyx, “I… will see you ter….Lady Singh.”

  “*sigh*...” Rossie sighed, “It’s hard being a teenage mom.”

  “Rossie…you are almost eighteen…” Elizabeth said from the side.

  “I will be eigtheen earlier than you Eli-Eli, so you o listen to me since I am an adult…or will be.” Rossie joked, trying to disperse the bad mood that had bee.

  “I will speak to her ter Mistress, this…is unbeing of a Shadon,” Nyx said as he gred at the shadow that Beatrice had used to leave.

  “Leave it Nyx, Beatrice is among the most hardw of the minions, and among the most advanced. I know she means well, both for me and for Rossie.” Elizabeth said, stopping Nyx in its tracks.

  “...As you wish, Mistress. But even so, she should know better. We live to serve, not to and. For that is what we are, we are your minions.” Nyx said before sinking down into the shadows, too.

  “...He needs vacations.” Elizabeth sighed, “We all need vacations!”

  “Mistress? Here is Lady Jenna.” And as soon as Elizabeth screamed for her dearest wish… Aura came with Jenna in tow.

  It was time to prepare for the fight.